You know, everyone has been listening to your (high pitched, shrieky) roaring incessantly for the last, oh, 50 years? I mean, the story we are discussing here is that a person from one group of people wrote an article, very mild in its tone, which offended the self-designated representatives of another group, and was immediately fired for it. Many individuals from first person’s group then felt the need to very publicly disavow him. It’s obvious that one of these groups is privileged vs the other. Certainly, in today’s climate, no woman or minority is getting fired for saying something that could be construed as hurtful to straight white males.
Has this climate made American women happy? Nope-their happiness is at an all time low. Do you like living in a society which is having a Cold War between its genders?
As for the litany of cherry picked complaints about how rough women have it, we’ve been listening to that shrieked through a megaphone for a long time. Somehow, you people never mention the spending gap (women spend far more money than men in the US,) or the gap in hazardous, unpleasant jobs, or workplace deaths.
Finally, it’s hilarious that the stock image you chose to illustrate your article about the intolerable oppression faced by lady engineers, who are just as dedicated and capable as their male counterparts, is of an attractive woman applying lipstick. If you were writing an article about male engineers, the photo would not have been a guy shaving his chest-he’d be hunched over a keyboard. The subtext is, “we’re pretty and delicate, how dare you offend us?” Well, pick one-you want to be equal, or privileged?
